I’m alive! I have two very small blisters but besides that I’m fine. The walking and the camping was awesome, tough at times but an achievement that it’s complete. I did 26.5 km so I’m quite proud (with 12.5 kg bag). I thought that today I’d talk about star stable instagraming as I’ve become more active recently. I’m talking about my version of it as I don’t sit there and edit each photo for an hour. In fact, it takes me about 10 seconds to edit my photos so I’m going to talk about my photo process.
1. I just take the photo at some point when I’m online. I take loads a day just when I’m with a friend, feeding horses, alone or actually posing. I try to have a mix with some that I’m clearly posing from, some active, some still, quests, race, friends, club. The lot! It’ll make it more interesting. 2. I have iCloud which means after I take the photo, I can then access it from my phone almost instantly. This is really helpful as I can just take a load of photos and then choose off my phone which ones to use. 3. I then edit the photo with the Instagram filter Rise as the “brown spotlight” is my theme. I like having a simple theme as I can post what I want and then just change the colour. 4. Finally, I write whatever I want on the photo. Normally it’s about SSO life but not always!
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Very tired Li is currently sitting in front of my laptop half asleep but I really want to share my views on the update! I’m going away for Thursday night have been packing my bag all evening. I haven’t had the time to write a post while I’m away so don’t expect anything tomorrow. I was so happy when I saw the update because I love this quest line. It’s certainly up there i my top 3 favourite quest lines of all time! And today’s quests just boosted it up even higher because they were amazing. There was great animations plus an awesome (spoiler alert) house to explore. I won’t do a blog through of thee quests today because I don’t think that I have to the however that is something that I will do over the weekend. I do have two photos of my favourite parts though (see below but be warned of spoilers). Also, SSO released music on Spotify. I haven’t had a chance to listen yet but I will and then I’ll share my favourites with you. I think that it’s really nice that SSO is so good to creators around their game as they give them the music to do it with etc. It’s very different to some games that don’t interact with the creative side of the community at all. So that’s awesome! Really nice update with some new quests. Slightly damped by something happening with Star Rider but I need to check it’s true before I rant. What did you think of today’s update?
Hello, Li here (well who else would it be). I’m casually sitting in a sea of piles listening to music. I’m going on a two day expedition Thursday and Friday which should be awesome but packing is the most stressful thing ever! You may have noticed that I did not post yesterday, that’s because mostly (like right now) I really enjoy posting and I have way to too much to say and not enough time to say it. However, sometimes I don’t feel that and I just want to do other things. I never want writing to become a chore so if I don’t feel like blogging - I won’t! Anyways, onto what I wanted to share today. Yesterday, the Frosties and I decided to run around Dark Core base pretending to be normal (photo below). While I was there I noticed how much of the area could be opened up for future quests and I wondered what I’d like to see there. The first thing I’d like to be able to go inside the base again. Below I have a photo from last time and I think we can all agree it was awesome! Wouldn’t it be cool if the the other soul riders were caught and we had to break them out using our own powers? So it would be a bit like the South Hoof quests with the horses but with the soul riders. Hopefully we could meet Justin in there as well because I think that we can convert him back to good yet! Hey, I’ll tell you something really awesome, if our own character pretended to be evil for a bit - I’ve always wondered what bring a Dark Rider is like. Below is a photo she you’re running away from DC in a quest. I’d like this to happen again but next time you to be running away from the Dark Riders and you get to send spells at them. And you could choose which spell to use as well by pressing different keys so you have more control over the quests (something that I always like because when you have more control it’s like that I myself am doing the quests which always makes it more enjoyable for me). So that would be amazing. Basically, I just want more awesome story quests. What do you think?
Hello! Some people have been asking when I’ll get back to writing fan fiction on Sunday and the fact is that I won’t until I have one planned out. I know that I want it to be about Silverglade Equestrian centre and that I want people to send in characters to use but that’s all I know. But what goes into planning a piece of fan fiction? Well this is my planning process.
1. Get the initial flare down. Whatever my inspiration is I get it down. If it’s a photo, sentence, basic idea (“girls at Silverglade Equestrian centre”) I write it down so that I don’t lose it. I get a lot of flares so I need to be able to come back later and start using it. 2. Write out the basic plot line. I normally have this very long, over one and a half A4 pages. You just write what happens. E.g. “Kitty does the soul rider test. She sees Welsh and translates it into finding a door. She then meets Avalon outside”. 3. If I get any ideas for certain sentences in here then I just put them in inverted commas by the text. 4. I then make a character profile for each character regardless of how big a part they play. To do this I have a text thing I go through and answer the questions on and then I always find a photo because it helps me vision what is happening. 5. Next I start writing out the text. If it’s longer I do an expanded plan before I write it out but for SSO fan fictions I just write it. 6. I always stop if I have writers block - never force it. 7. I then use my mac speaker thing to check for most mistakes. 8. On more important things I leave it a few days before reading the whole story again. Doing this helps your stories make more sense and flow. However, sometimes it’s fun just to delve into the writing! I haven’t shared one of my outfits for a while so here is one now! I’ve practically been living in this one as it’s quite summery and encompasses some of the latest fashion from fashion week (I like to be up to date). Please do not copy this outfit entirely. Inspiration is fine and using a similar theme/ similar things is fine but just not the whole thing because that’s just unoriginal! Street cap - Lifetime Star Rider
White Retro top - mall Light blue slim-fit jeans - mall Black basket shoes - Jarlaheim, Jarla Metal Palace Black outdoor gloves - quests Black Sports Saddle - mall Black Jorvik bridle - Fort Pinta, Fort Pinta Gear Junior Steeplechase blanket - Fort Pinta, Fort Pinta Gear Your own handmade horse shoe - quest Small life update. As some people will know in my previous two vaccinations I had a massive panic after them including black spots, dizziness and vomiting. I was terrified of having another one because it was like giving permission for someone to stab me with something that could make me feel very unwell. I backed out the first time 2 weeks ago but I came back again to do it yesterday and after much shaking and crying I did the jab! My arms hurt at the moment and I was very shaking and teary afterwards because I was so glad it was over. I hardly had a reaction to it as well so I’m happy right now and in the middle of planning a Harry Potter fan fiction about Tessa Von Silverstein. (Ps, no post yesterday because of the above.) Have you seen this exciting thing just off the path through Hollow Woods? It’s some kind of orienteering thing that i think might be for one or two updates away. She hasn’t got a name yet though.
I think it’ll be like a point to point where we have directions to locations and have to find them all as fast as we can. And then it will be similar to a high scoring race with the top of the day, etc. I think this is really cool and is actually using some real life skills in game because map reading is important. It looks awesome and I want it to come soon! What do you think? This update has been well predicted by the SSO community, it’s Jorvik Fashion week and Fortuna! Both come with quests but if you’ve done the fashion week ones before you can’t do them again (which is annoying but I can see why). But before you even log on you notice the update with the brand new loading screen: I miss the pink cat quite honestly. This is sleek and new but the cat has helped me so many times that it feels wrong without it. I really like the art and I think that it would be an excellent way to include the community with the Monday funday art going up on the loading screen as it would really help promote artists (especially if they got credited). The next thing was the amazing fashion show. Here are some of the outfits (I’m sorry for names in the photos/ speech bubbles, I couldn’t ignore everyone in time). I love love love these outfits! My two personal favourites are above but I love these clothes. They are all textured and feel realistic. I think that they have made the dresses actually work although the skirts not so much. I love the jeans however my favourite piece is definitely the horse top. I decided to go on my Unicorn Forest account and get some of the new clothes so here they are: think that’s pretty much it. Plus you get to chase the rainbows for another week! And the horse market is back. I haven’t started on any of the quests yet as I was cramming in revision but I will tomorrow. Night!
Today I want to talk about what happened with FR over 2 months ago now and how we came back from it. In time, I will talk in more detail but now I feel it is time to roughly glide over what went on.
So after I got the club from the previous owner, there was a lot of tension. This was because half of the club still followed the previous owner and half followed me. This lead to drama and friction particularly because the leaders and other high ranks had been in the club for longer and so followed her. This meant that when she made her own club most of the old family followed. But not all. Actually, it was pretty even half and half but FR was still left with 25 spaces and now we had criticism that we were no longer a family. We were. We added new members who of course took a while to blend in with the family but the family always has and always will exist. Slowly more and more members came (we always had loads on the list waiting to join away). We had a full club again with new leaders. It felt so much better. There wasn’t the same divide anymore. All of the members had a chance to make mistakes and be themselves a way they hadn’t before. The gaps left by old members were now not only physically filled but emotionally as well. The club had come together from the small family left behind to a bigger, newer and dare I say in my opinion better family. This Saturday, we will finally have 4 leaders and 6 RIs again (something I have been waiting a while to do but wanted to give it time). FR has healed completely and the testing of the sword only makes it stronger. We are one and we are strong because we’re in a place where friends are family! Literally falling asleep here after an evening of climbing. So today I decided to do a SSO would you rather, inspired from the club chat!
Would you rather… Have all your friends thinking you’re a newb or only be friends with newbs One horse and a wardrobe full of amazing clothes and tack or lots of horses but only one outfit Owner of a small riding club or member in a large one Can only do races or can only do dailies Spending all your money on cafe water or spending all your money on horses which you then sell Never be Star Rider or never be able to use chat Ah some of these were so hard, I don’t know if I chose the right ones! Do let me know what you chose? Good evening! As you may know, last week I finished my last SSO fan fiction because, quite honestly, I got bored. I have started a Harry Potter fan fiction for real life which I’m very excited about because it’ll be the first thing I properly plan out. But here is a short story about Aideen (I was inspired by yesterday’s theory post).
Light, blinding light. It was everywhere. Burning me, consuming me. It hurt and yet it was beautiful and pure. Like daggers made from the softest ribbons, it streamed and stabbed it’s away across our bodies. Our bodies. I could feel another presents there. Another soul joined to mine and we rode forth from the light onto an island. We rode! It was a beautiful stallion, standing tell and proud on the shore. With a whoosh the light started to contract. Smaller, smaller, smaller. Getting brighter as it went until it could fit on my hand. I made to grab it with my dominant left hand when I realised that it was gripped something. A golden harp reflected the light of daggers. Experimentally, I plucked it. A soft clear note. The essence of life. Fumbling through the ground, a small plant pushed through the rocks and rose upwards. I laughed with joy and player the harp again. Another note. I turned to Stallion (which I creatively named the horse) as we rode laughing and whinnying to the singing off the harp, bringing life with us. Aideen. Yes Stallion? So my name is Aideen… You must keep this place safe. Make some trees all over the island to protect the rest of it from evil. You must creative a network of trees. I understood and knew how. I just pressed my hands to a tree while holding the light and became a part of it. i like by feet become roots growing into the ground and my arms shoot upwards and branch out. I made myself bigger and healthy to which the tree follow suit. When finally the work was done I let myself fall asleep under a newly made apple tree. Maybe today was done but my work was far from over. It’s time for another theory. I had it this morning while I was brushing my teeth so here goes. It might not be at all based on truth and just a wild theory but hey, let’s go! So you know how Jorvik was apparently started by a falling star? So in that star was Aideen who started the lie on Jorvik. Does that mean that soul riders/ soul rider powers come from a star? We don’t know but it sounds likely to me that soul riders actually all descended from a fallen star. Hang on, what other fallen stars are there on Jorvik? Of course, the fallen stars that we collect and find around game! So this gives us two options. The first is that each star has a soul rider waiting in it and when the soul rider is needed the star will erupt like Aideen’s did. And the reason why there are so many stars is because the decedents of Aideen have been protecting Jorvik and so the stars are not needed.
The other theory is that the star gives powers to the soul rider in question. So that means that when our character finds each star we gain our powers. This means that the stars are powerful and gave Aideen her powers. But there is a flaw to this. If that happened then what happened with the moon, lightning and sun elements? What do you think? Good evening! Bit annoyed the I started writing a theories post on fallen stars when my cold struck. My right hear is blocked and I can’t hear very much which is making me feel disorientated and nauseous. And I have the normal headache, sneezing, blocked up nose, cough etc that comes with a cold. So I plan to get sleep and hopefully tomorrow my body will start recovering!
As suspected, the rainbows have returned to Jorvik. Sadly, not with the parade (which I suspect will appear next week). St. Patricks day is this Friday so it’s a shame that we won’t have the parade for then.
I am in love with the rainbows as all ways. I will of course been taking far too many photos with them which you will be able to find on my Instagram (@lisilentland). I can’t wait to collect the outfit but if you didn’t have the rainbows last year, here is a guide. 1. Rainbows appear on the hour and half past the hour. 2. If you log on while a rainbow is on you will not see it and will have to wait for the next one 3. They are in random places, stand at SF to see where it is - if you can’t see it it’s at Valedale Lake 4. At each rainbow there are 10 piles of gold which you can get 10 pieces from 5. You can swap these pieces for clothes 6. Rainbows last 20 minutes And so there we are - a guide to rainbows. Other news is that the Horse Market wants to look for rainbows - I mean they want to look after the horses and keep them away from the rainbows - so they are taking a break and Jorvik Fashion week signs are up so that’s something to look forward to! At the moment I arrange by clothes by colour and holiday. But every time I change outfits, this means I have to put the old outfit away. It means that when I’m looking for my racing gear I have to delve through fathoms of clothes but when I’m making a low stat outfit, I want it in colour order so when I think “I want dark blue jeans” boom, dark blue jeans to hand.
This would solve all of the problems. I’d like it sort of like this. I’d like it so that you’d open your wardrobe and decide that you want to sort by colour. So you press the brown and all of the brown clothes go to that page. You could then select the type that you wanted so that you’d only see that type. Then you could select the type so you could only so If you want you could then press stats and the clothes on that page would go in order of stats. And boom you can find those max stats brown boots that have been missing! I normally hate the “mall” design but I’d actually like it for our wardrobe as it is more visual and it would allow you to see what’s what. But I wouldn't like to go in the "mall room" just the actual shop thing. What are your ideas about the wardrobe? Post them on Instagram and tag @starstableonline if you want a change! Feel free to use this photo but please credit me and my Instagram account @lisilentland. As a bit of a nerd, I love dingbats! If you don’t know what they are Google them. I made a few to figure out the answers to - comment them down below and tomorrow I will upload the answers to this post. Some are SSO related and some are horse related. I’m not good at dingbats and this is my first try so sorry if they are too easy!
It’s strange how some people just click and Billie and I did just that. She with her short hair and freckles. The truck trundled towards the Dark Core base. Billie and Buggings had the honour of keeping an eye on me. There wasn’t any point. I wouldn’t run from the truck because I knew they’d all die. Simple as that. I was young, quick and skilled maybe, but inexperienced. But others were not so. Maybe they were scared of me but in comparison to the people who trained me, I was a spoiled 4 year old.
I sat back listening to Billie complaining about the quality of the wood. I wondered if Billie would die as well. Could I save her? Could I even save myself? Did I want to? After about 10 hours we arrived at the Dark Core base. I think the weather understands pathetic fallacy as it was raining. You could only feel as you could feel it: it was so dark that you couldn’t see your hands in front of your face. Finally, the raid started. JI8s men and women ran in with their guns screaming “It’s JI8, get on the floor”. From where Buggings had a hold of me I heard the last screams before a bang. Throw in a bit of begging and the sound of running and then you have the orchestra of battle. It took about 5 minutes for a Dark Core woman - I think it was a woman anyway - to find us. She raised her gun. “Drop your weapons,” she told us. Since I hadn’t actually been given the honour of having a weapon I stood still. Billie dropped her gun with a clatter but Buggings didn’t. He was shot. That sounds so remote but I had no feelings towards Buggings plus it wasn’t the first death I’d seen. Billie started sobbing but to her credit, silently. “Which one of you is Spectre ?” “Me,” I truthfully told her. She looked at me. Nodded before she aimed the gun at Billie and pulled the trigger. I gasped. Literal pain spread through my body. Not the pain of loosing someone, the pain of a bullet. My gasp had cost a lot. Would Billie and I die or would they spare us? I knew neither of us had been fatally injured if we had treatment. Well, you never know. Not every story ends happily. I think that a lot of people have the wrong attitude to life. Maybe it works for them but these are the rules I try to follow to make my life better:
1. Love others as much as you love yourself. Would you really say the things that you think about yourself about someone else to their face? If not then don't say them. 2. Be you. Because you're not going to be able to be anyone else. 3. Life is for living. Life it short and there isn't always a tomorrow, so do it today! 4. Be happy + positive! Everything will just feel better. Be the person people want to be around 5. If you want something work for it and you can do it. Never give up on your dreams because (unless it's stupid) you can do it! You only get one life, so you better make the most of it! #yolo Hasn’t been the best day. I was meant to have a vaccination - two actually - but I freaked out and panicked before hand so I’m having it another time now. I’m annoyed at myself. Also I have an exam tomorrow so that’ll be fun. Hopefully things will look nicer tomorrow!
I was thinking today about my future. In real life, I haven’t recently been offered a place at a science college and I accepted. It made me wonder, what do I want to do in the future? I don’t want to work at SSO (although it would be awesome) but if I did, what jobs would I want? Well here they are.
1. I’d love to be able to write the quest lines. As you know, I love writing so writing the quest lines would be a dream come true. I’d love to see my stories made real and played out by the players. 2. It would be awesome to do someone like Matilda does with the Star Stable Show. I love acting + performing (I actually have an exam this weekend -casually freaks out-) and it looks like a lot of fun. I also enjoy video editing. 3. Finally, I’d like the be a customer support person. First, I’d love to be able to make so many players happy by meeting a GM. Also, I’ve had practise at replying to everyone nicely (no matter my mood or how stupid their letter is) from FR. That looks like a very fun job. What would you like to do at Star Stable? Today's update brought us 3 new horses. It was quite a small update but we did get some quests last week so I'm not too fussed. (Plus there were some Horse Market stuff.) The community has been screaming about these new horses, so let's go and have a look. The first horse I saw was the grey American Paint Horse. I really liked the texture of the grey patches but I’m not so keen on the overall look. I feel like the white and grey clash a bit and give a slightly ugly look but I really don’t like the new models of the APH so I’m not really one to give the best opinion on it as I hate the body shape in general as well as the pattern. 4.8 / 10 I think that this cutie was my favourite out of the new horses. I loved the simple black and white which I think always looks nice together. I loved the random white patches and the patches on the mane (which you can’t really see from this photo) I think looked lovely. I also love his little socks. If I was being fussy (which I am) I’d like there to be more white at the front and maybe on his face - but overall I really like him. 7.6 / 10 Finally, I traipsed to DV to look at the Fjord. I don’t like the main body colour that much but it isn’t awful. I do like the colour of the mane and the colour of his lower leg. However, I don’t like the way that the colour goes lighter and then darker again the it’s fading from dark brown to light. I really like his muzzle and I like the white stripe thing there. However, I think he’d quite similar to the other Fjords. He’s ok. 6.6 / 10 Overall, I thought that the Icelandic was cute and then the Fjord was ok. I know some people love the APH but really not me! I haven’t brought any of them because none are calling me for a hug so not today. What did you think of the horses?
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Li Silentland
Hello!Welcome to my little space on the large internet where I can share my thoughts, views and fanfics! I am you 'normal' teenaged girl, who loves writing, gaming and horses. I've played Star Stable online since 1st June 2014 and I am currently a level 20 player on Cupcake Valley where I hang about with Frosty Roses and my 18 pixel horses! Disclaimer: All images and anything else to do with this blog are taken in the game Star Stable Online produced by Star Stable Entertainment AB. I have nothing to do with Star Stable and own none of their graphics. But I can tell you it is a great game and you should play it!
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